Spain have gone into half-time 2-0 up against Ukraine in their Group H encounter in Leipzig.

Goals from Luis Garcia (but really Xabi Alonso) and David Villa have given Spain's La Furia Roja a healthy lead going into half-time.

Both teams started brightly, but with Spain managing to have the slight advantage in attack.

Ukraine had a free-kick in the 5th minute but Volodymyr Yezerskiy, arching backwards at the back post, headed Ruslan Rotan's free-kick over the bar.

Andriy Shevchenko broke through on goal early on but the linesman flagged him offside, when the Ukraine captain was blatantly onside.

Liverpool's Luis Garcia was linking well with Valencia's David Villa throughout the first-half and it was Garcia who opened the scoring in the 12th minute.

Garcia was awarded the goal - even though replays have shown that it was his Liverpool team-mate Xabi Alonso who got the final touch - from a corner in the 14th minute to give Spain the lead.

Just three minutes later, Valencia's David Villa scored a second for La Furia Roja, with his free-kick from 22-yards out being deflected off the head of one of the defenders in the wall, Anatoliy Tymoschuk, and past the Ukrainian keeper Oleksandr Shovkovskyi who was diving to his right.

Spain were really in the ascendancy now, with a peppering of shots on goal, and averaging four shots to every Ukraine attempt on goal.

Ukraine managed to muster a couple of attacks themselves as the half wore on, with Shevchenko playing a neat pass through to Andriy Voronin, but again Ukraine were on the wrong end of a poor offside call by the linesman.

David Villa had a last first-half chance for Spain, with a shot at the near-post, but was stifled by a defender and the keeper Shovkovskyi saved.

Spain went into half-time thoroughly deserving their lead, with Ukraine not looking like they will be able to pull much back in the heat of Leipzig.

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